Namru

This article covers the Sumerian deity Namru. For the village of Namru (那 木 如 村) in the Günsa municipality in the Gar County of the Tibet Autonomous Region, see Namru (Günsa) .

Namru ( Sumerian ^D NAM.RU and ^D NAM.ŠUB, Akkadian ilu-nam-ru) is originally a Sumerian deity. His Sumerian name literally means “Pure God who illuminates our walk” and “Pure God who makes us pure”; as an Akkadian translation shortened to "(the) shining God".

Later, Namru received the meaning of the god of science and craft, "who gives wisdom and knowledge of all things". He is a good advisor and teaches the science of metals.

In ancient Babylonian times, there was another change in meaning to the conjuration god in his naming as an equivalent of ^D Asar-lu-hi in connection with Marduk : "Marduk, (who) performs the conjuration". Namru was considered one of his 50 names after its assimilation by Marduk.

literature

• Dietz-Otto Edzard and a .: Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology . Volume 9: Nab - Nuzi . de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-017296-8 , p. 142.
• Helmut Freydank u. a .: Lexicon of the Old Orient. Egypt * India * China * Western Asia . VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-928127-40-3 .
• Brigitte Groneberg : The gods of the Mesopotamia. Cults, Myths, Epen , Artemis & Winkler, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7608-2306-8 .